Handle holder for caskets



. F. M. SONDAY. HANDLE HOLDER FOR CASKETS.v

APPLICATION FILED MAR 25| 1921. l

Patented Aug. 22, 1922;

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HANDLE HOLDER FOR CASKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, i922.

Application led March 25, 1921. Serial No. 455,535.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. SONDAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Churubusco, in the county of lVhit-ley and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Handle I-Iolder for Gaskets, of which the following is a speciication.

The object of my invention is to provide a device for holding the handles of caskets at the desired distance from the top oic the caskets while the screws are being applied which .tasten the handles to the walls of the Gaskets; and to provide means for adjusting the device. I attain these and other objects oi the invention by the device illus trated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa side elevation of the invention, applied to a casket;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my invention;

Fig. 3 is an edge elevation of the inven tion, applied to a casket;

Fig. l is a section on line 4r-4f of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Like numerals designate like parts in each of the several views.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, l designates a conventional casket, 2 a cover 'for saine and 3 conventional casket handles, the attaching` plates for which are secured to the sides or ends of the casket by screws 5.

In order to support the handles 3 at the desired distance from the top of the casket while it is being attached by means of the screws 5, I provide the holder, consisting of overlapping plates 6 and 7, the plate 7 having a slot extending longitudinally' thereof for substantially the length ot the plate 7 and through which the inturned approximately T-shaped end 9 of plate 6 eX- tends. so that its projecting lportions will slidably engage the inner end of plate 7, shown in Figs. 2 and 3. I further provide a thumb screw 10, inserted through the slot 8 and in threaded engagement with the orifices 14 in plate (i, as shown in Fig. 5, whereby the screw 10, in connection with tongue 9, holds the plates in longitudinally aligned relation in their different adjusted positions and whereby the tightening of the screw 10 will clamp the plates rigidly together in any desired adjusted position. I provide plate 7 with an inwardly turned end portion 12, having an upwardly turned portion 13 engaging around the handles 3, to hold same, as shown in Fig. 3. I further provide an inwardly turned end 11 on the plate 6, as shown in Fig. 3, which portion engages over the upper edge of the casket.

What I claim is: j

1. In a handle holder for caskets, the combination of a plurality of operatively connected plates, each of said plates having inturned end portions, the inturned end of one plate being adapted to engage over the upper edge of the casket, and the inturned end of the other plate beingsuitably shaped to engage the casket handle, and means securing the plates together and permitting of longitudinal adjustment of one plate relative to the other plate.

2. In a handle holder for caskets, the combination of a plurality of similar elongated plates, each having an inturned end, one of the plates having a slot extending longitudinally thereof, the other plate having a tongue extending through said slot and engaging the inner surface of the other plate, and a fastening member inserted through the slot of the first plate and adjustably engaging the second plate, whereby the plates may be readily secured in any desired longitudinally adjusted position of one plate relative to the other.

3. In a device for holding handles in adjusted position relative to the top edge of a casket while being affixed to the side walls thereof, comprising elongated operatively connected longitudinally slidable members, each of said members having inturned ends shaped to permit one of the members to engage over the upper edge of the casket and the other member to engage under the handle to be supported, and means attached to one of the plates and in releasable engagement with the other plate for adjustably securing the plates in the desired extended relation of one plate to the other, whereby the handle may be held at the desired distance from the top edge of the casket while bein@ fastened thereto, substantially as set fort FRANCIS M. SUNDAY. 

